Introduction | p. 1 |
Chaos in Differential Equations Systems | p. 1 |
Chaos in Difference Equation Systems | p. 4 |
The logistic map | p. 5 |
Delay models | p. 6 |
The Henon model | p. 6 |
More Complex Structures | p. 8 |
Three-dimensional and higher-dimensional models | p. 8 |
Conservative systems | p. 8 |
Rotations | p. 10 |
Shape and form | p. 12 |
Chaos and the Universe | p. 14 |
Chaos in the solar system | p. 14 |
Chaos in galaxies | p. 19 |
Galactic-type potentials and the Henon-Heiles system | p. 23 |
The Contopoulos system | p. 25 |
Odds and Ends, and Milestones | p. 27 |
Models and Modelling | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 29 |
Model Construction | p. 30 |
Growth/decay models | p. 30 |
Modelling Techniques | p. 32 |
Series approximation | p. 33 |
Empirical model formulation | p. 36 |
The calculus of variations approach | p. 38 |
The probabilistic-stochastic approach | p. 39 |
Delay growth functions | p. 40 |
Chaotic Analysis and Simulation | p. 41 |
Deterministic, Stochastic and Chaotic Models | p. 42 |
The Logistic Model | p. 47 |
The Logistic Map | p. 47 |
Geometric analysis of the logistic | p. 47 |
Algebraic analysis of the logistic | p. 51 |
The Bifurcation Diagram | p. 58 |
Other Models with Similar Behaviour | p. 61 |
Models with Different Chaotic Behaviour | p. 62 |
The GRM1 Chaotic Model | p. 64 |
GRM1 and innovation diffusion modelling | p. 64 |
The generalized rational model | p. 66 |
Parameter estimation for the GRM1 model | p. 68 |
Illustrations | p. 69 |
Further Discussion | p. 71 |
The Delay Logistic Model | p. 79 |
Introduction | p. 79 |
Delay Difference Models | p. 79 |
Simple delay oscillation scheme | p. 79 |
The delay logistic model | p. 81 |
Time Delay Differential Equations | p. 82 |
A More Complicated Delay Model | p. 84 |
A Delay Differential Logistic Analogue | p. 86 |
Other Delay Logistic Models | p. 86 |
Model Behaviour for Large Delays | p. 89 |
Another Delay Logistic Model | p. 91 |
The Henon Model | p. 99 |
Global Period Doubling Bifurcations in the Henon Map | p. 99 |
Period doubling bifurcations when b = -1 | p. 100 |
Period doubling bifurcations when b = 1 | p. 101 |
The Cosine-Henon Model | p. 101 |
An Example of Bifurcation and Period Doubling | p. 103 |
A Differential Equation Analogue | p. 103 |
Variants of the Henon Delay Difference Equation | p. 104 |
The third-order delay model | p. 104 |
Second-order delay models | p. 105 |
First-order delay variants | p. 107 |
Exponential variants | p. 108 |
Variants of the Henon System Equations | p. 109 |
The Holmes and Sine Delay Models | p. 110 |
The Holmes model | p. 110 |
The sine delay model | p. 111 |
Three-Dimensional and Higher-Dimensional Models | p. 117 |
Equilibrium Points and Characteristic Matrices | p. 117 |
The Lotka-Volterra Model | p. 118 |
The Arneodo Model | p. 119 |
An Autocatalytic Attractor | p. 121 |
A Four-Dimensional Autocatalytic Attractor | p. 122 |
The Rossler Model | p. 123 |
A variant of the Rossler model | p. 124 |
Introducing rotation into the Rossler model | p. 127 |
The Lorenz Model | p. 129 |
The modified Lorenz model | p. 131 |
Non-Chaotic Systems | p. 135 |
Conservative Systems | p. 135 |
The simplest conservative system | p. 137 |
Equilibrium points in Hamiltonian systems | p. 138 |
Linear Systems | p. 139 |
Transformations on linear systems | p. 140 |
Qualitative behaviour at equilibrium points | p. 142 |
Egg-Shaped Forms | p. 144 |
A simple egg-shaped form | p. 144 |
A double egg-shaped form | p. 145 |
A double egg-shaped form with an envelope | p. 146 |
Symmetric Forms | p. 148 |
More Complex Forms | p. 150 |
Higher-Order Forms | p. 153 |
Rotations | p. 157 |
Introduction | p. 157 |
A Simple Rotation-Translation System of Differential Equations | p. 158 |
A Discrete Rotation-Translation Model | p. 163 |
A General Rotation-Translation Model | p. 169 |
Rotating Particles inside the Egg-Shaped Form | p. 171 |
Rotations Following an Inverse Square Law | p. 173 |
Shape and Form | p. 179 |
Introduction | p. 179 |
Symmetry and plane isometries | p. 180 |
Isometries in Modelling | p. 184 |
Two-dimensional rotation | p. 184 |
Reflection and Translation | p. 186 |
Space contraction | p. 186 |
Application in the Ikeda Attractor | p. 187 |
Chaotic Attractors and Rotation-Reflection | p. 188 |
Experimenting with Rotation and Reflection | p. 191 |
The effect of space contraction on rotation-translation | p. 191 |
The effect of space contraction and change of reflection angle on translation-reflection | p. 192 |
Complicated rotation angle forms | p. 193 |
Comparing rotation-reflection | p. 194 |
A simple rotation-translation model | p. 196 |
Chaotic Circular Forms | p. 196 |
Further Analysis | p. 200 |
The space contraction rotation-translation case | p. 202 |
Chaotic Advection | p. 205 |
The Sink Problem | p. 205 |
Central sink | p. 205 |
The contraction process | p. 207 |
Non-Central Sink | p. 207 |
Two Symmetric Sinks | p. 208 |
Aref's blinking vortex system | p. 208 |
Chaotic Forms without Space Contraction | p. 213 |
Other Chaotic Forms | p. 213 |
Complex Sinusoidal Rotation Angle | p. 216 |
A Special Rotation-Translation Model | p. 219 |
Other Rotation-Translation Models | p. 219 |
Elliptic rotation-translation | p. 219 |
Rotation-translation with special rotation angle | p. 220 |
Chaos in Galaxies and Related Simulations | p. 223 |
Introduction | p. 223 |
Chaos in the Solar System | p. 225 |
Galaxy Models and Modelling | p. 228 |
A special rotation-translation image | p. 234 |
Rotation-Reflection | p. 235 |
Relativity in Rotation-Translation Systems | p. 236 |
Other Relativistic Forms | p. 241 |
Galactic Clusters | p. 247 |
Relativistic Reflection-Translation | p. 248 |
Rotating Disks of Particles | p. 248 |
A circular rotating disk | p. 248 |
The rotating ellipsoid | p. 250 |
Rotating Particles under Distant Attracting Masses | p. 253 |
One attracting mass | p. 253 |
The area of the chaotic region in galaxy simulations | p. 255 |
The speed of particles | p. 257 |
Two Equal Attracting Masses in Opposite Directions | p. 258 |
Symmetric unequal attracting masses | p. 260 |
Two Attracting Equal Nonsymmetric Masses | p. 263 |
Galactic-Type Potentials and the Henon-Heiles System | p. 267 |
Introduction | p. 267 |
The Henon-Heiles System | p. 268 |
Discrete Analogues to the Henon-Heiles System | p. 270 |
Paths of Particles in the Henon-Heiles System | p. 272 |
Other Forms for the Hamiltonian | p. 273 |
The Simplest Form for the Hamiltonian | p. 275 |
Gravitational Attraction | p. 275 |
A Logarithmic Potential | p. 279 |
Hamiltonians with a Galactic Type Potential: The Contopoulos System | p. 279 |
Another Simple Hamiltonian System | p. 281 |
Odds and Ends | p. 285 |
Forced Nonlinear Oscillators | p. 285 |
The Effect of Noise in Three-Dimensional Models | p. 285 |
The Lotka-Volterra Theory for the Growth of Two Conflicting Populations | p. 288 |
The Pendulum | p. 290 |
A Special Second-Order Differential Equation | p. 292 |
Other Patterns and Chaotic Forms | p. 292 |
Milestones | p. 297 |
References | p. 303 |
Index | p. 345 |
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